"Are you going to spoil the best sale I've made in two weeks ?" "Oh, I'll take it off your hands if he doesn't.

Make some excuse not to deliver it until I say the word.

You don't know the woman, eh ?" "Never saw her before." Gray knocked several times at the Governor's suite before a sleepy response, a succession of yawns and mutterings, told him that he had been heard.

The door opened finally and the pride of the Briskow family, his eyes all but swelled shut, his muscular figure splendidly arrayed in futuristic silken pajamas, mumbled: "What's eatin' you, any-- ?" The eyes opened wider, Buddy's face broke into a slow smile.

"Why, Mr.Gray!" He extended a palm, a bit dry and feverish, and drew his caller inside.